Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Convicted on Corruption Charges, Wanted to Appoint Himself to Former Obama Senate Seat for Power

Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was convicted on seventeen of the twenty counts that he was accused of, based on his corruption charges throughout his time Governor of Illinois. The most pressing of these charges were an attempt to sell off the United States seat of Barack Obama to the highest bidder. Only three accounts were not charged, one was acquitted in an account of Bribery and two other accounts of attempted extortion was met with a deadlock.

This trial concludes a long legal battle of the former Governor. This past August, the first attempt to convict Blagojevich ended in most of his charges being deadlocked by the jury. In the end, the latest round of trials which started earlier this Monday ended rather poorly for the former Illinois governor. Most of the counts have Blagojevich looking to spend at the most twenty years in prison, on their own. It is not looking good for Rod Blagojevich.

It appears that Blagojevich is going to have to meet the penalties for his crime Yet the former Illinois Governor maintains the fact that he was set up and that he was left out to the wolves. Regardless of the fact, seventeen out of the twenty counts had been convicted and the former Illinois Governor is finding himself looking at some hefty prison time from his corruption charges. The Obama Senate seat was the worst one, with Blagojevich actually wanting to appoint himself to the Senate Seat, to increase his power.

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